Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Case Study

Owton, Helen

This book is about sexual abuse in sport, and specifically about one girl’s experience of long-term chronic abuse in sport. A ‘non-conventional’ approach is employed to explore the experiences of a female athlete named Bella who was groomed, sexually abused by her male coach, and then subjected to years of athlete domestic violence. Through a collaborative auto-ethnography process, these experiences are reported through vignettes and selected poems seeking to involve the reader in the grooming process of a young female athlete, so that they might react from the different social positions they currently occupy. 

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-12-05

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319467948

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46795-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 128